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English
Etymology 1
From un- + accustomed.
Adjective
unaccustomed (comparative more unaccustomed, superlative most unaccustomed)
- Not used to an event or thing, not accustomed.
He is unaccustomed to the cold.
1749, Henry Fielding, “In which the Man of the Hill begins to relate his History”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A Millar, , →OCLC, book VIII, page 244:[…] I again conveyed his Key into his Pocket, and counterfeiting Sleep, tho’ I never once cloſed my Eyes, lay in Bed till after he aroſe and went to Prayers, an Exerciſe to which I had long been unaccuſtomed.
1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, pages 345–346:“Do Veniam,” said his Superior; and the old man seized, with a trembling hand, a beverage to which he had been long unaccustomed, drained the cup with protracted delight, as if dwelling on the flavour and perfume, and set it down with a melancholy smile and shake of the head, as if bidding adieu in future to such delicious potations.
- To which one is not accustomed, unfamiliar
1909, James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard, Readings in Modern European History: Europe since the Congress of Vienna, page 118:Guerrilla warfare opens a field of activity for every local capacity, forces the enemy into an unaccustomed method of battle, avoids the evil consequences of a great defeat, secures the national war from the risk of treason, and has the advantage of not confining it within any defined and determinate basis of operations.
1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:Later that day, whether from the accumulated effect of seeing hunger, from the unaccustomed food or from the sun, I get sick.
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Etymology 2
Verb
unaccustomed
- simple past and past participle of unaccustom